As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in The Village of Loon Mountain, we use the following websites to find information relevant to The Village of Loon Mountain and the surrounding area.
Weather ...
Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for The Village of Loon Mountain:
44.061178, -71.627025
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on The Village of Loon Mountain
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Grafton County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
Open the Waymark.com report for The Village of Loon Mountain
Curious and Interesting Names Near The Village of Loon Mountain ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
Breezy Point (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as The Village of Loon Mountain to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in The Village of Loon Mountain and extending to:
Woodsville, which is the Seat of Grafton County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<2> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from The Village of Loon Mountain to Woodsville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
Concord, which is the State Capital of New Hampshire, lies 59 miles [95 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 453 miles [729 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,462 miles [8,790.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,177 miles [9,940.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,052 miles [6,521.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- The Village of Loon Mountain) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from The Village of Loon Mountain to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in The Village of Loon Mountain. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0612, Longitude: -71.6270 In this case, the coordinates for The Village of Loon Mountain have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.057 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.951 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 299.949 degrees.